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Roger L. Liles

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In the early 1960s, I earned a BA and did graduate studies in Modern European History. Then I was stationed in Turkey and German for five years as a Signals Intelligence Officer. Messages I generated and sent to Washington got President Johnson out of bed at least five times.
In 1970, I was awarded an MS in Engineering from USC. Then for almost forty years, I worked in military electronics—radar and electro-optical sensors. My main function was to translate engineering jargon into understandable English and communicate it to senior decision makers in the US government.

I took over three years of novel writing at UCLA in the 1990s including the Master Novel Writers Course.

Now retired after working for forty years as a senior engineering ma ...more

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Roger L. Liles's Blog: Background and Synopsis of the Novel “The Berlin Tunne

Background and Synopsis of The Berlin Tunnel

Books, movies and popular media have eulogized the major role that British breaking of the Enigma Code played in the winning of World War II. During the Cold War, a more monumental effort was made by the America and her allies to intercept and exploit Russian and communist countries communications. My novel, a thriller, takes the reader into the super-secret world that I occupied fifty years ago. Read more of this blog post »

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